Yoshida was widely praised for staying in post and limiting the impact of the nuclear disaster

A series of blasts shook India’s holiest Buddhist shrine on Sunday in what the Indian government called a terror attack.

Here is the full text of his resignation letter, published on Mr Watson's website

The footage of Luang Pu Nenkham Chattigo went viral last month along with images of monks looking at iPhones and drinking Starbucks coffee

A British minister who visited tens of thousands of Muslim refugees in Burma said he believes they will be forced to remain in squalid emergency camps for at least another 12 months as there is no quick-fix solution to the crisis.

A group of Buddhist monks have become the subject of complaints after videos of them on a private jet, wearing aviators and listening to personal headphones emerged on Youtube.

The pressure is on as nine million students compete for a place in the nation’s elite

Buddhist mobs armed with sticks and machetes burned Muslim homes for a second day in the northern Burmese city of Lashio, contradicting government assurances that soldiers had restored calm.

45 left dead but tropical storm misses 100,000-strong refugee camp in Burma by some distance

Amid concerns about a possible disaster, thousands of people displaced by communal violence last year have been evacuated from makeshift camps to safer ground ahead of a cyclone expected to hit Burma’s west coast later this week.

Reports of armed gangs and looting after a Muslim woman apparently bumped into a Buddhist monk

Human Rights Watch says EU sanctions against Burma should not be lifted yet

China is struggling to get its estimated 100 million religious believers to banish superstitious beliefs about things like sickness and death, the country's top religious affairs official told a state-run newspaper.

Teresa Solana is already known to us, as are her terrible twins, through two previous crime novels. Again translated by Peter Bush, The Sound of One Hand Killing is, however, the first in the series in which Solana and her twin Barcelona private eyes, Borja ("Pep") and Eduard Masdeu, actually meet on the page.